National Jurist - February 2008 - (Page 8) FORTHERECORD Arrest Arrested A bea beauty queen and two-year law student has placed on interim suspension by the dean of been pl student office until further notice. students’ Kuma Kumari Fulbright, a former Miss Arizona contesand tant an student at the University of Arizona Law School, was indicted on five felony charges, includarmed ing arm robbery, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon Police believe Fulbright and three accomweapon. lured her former boyfriend into her home, plices l where t they allegedly held him at gunpoint for 10 hours. S disputes the allegations and said she was She in the s shower when the attack occurred. Fulbr Fulbright, who writes for the James E. Rogers College of Law’s Arizona Journal of International and Compar Comparative Law, wants to continue her studies but the law school has barred her from campus. n She next appears as Miss May in a 2008 swimsuit calenda featuring a woman carrying guns. calendar Rebecca Avila, the senior associate dean for administration and finance at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication, will become the assistant dean for administration and finance in June. Chemerinsky officially takes over as dean in July. Innovation Three professors at The John Marshall Law School will use innovative electronic formats to teach J.D., M.S., and LL.M. courses this year. Classes will give students full classroom lectures online with an interactive student-teacher component. Currently, the American Bar Association limits students to four credits in one semester for online learning, and 12 credits over their J.D. degree program. Dean John Corkery said he thinks it will inspire others to become more knowledgeable about online learning. Apologized A would-be Boston lawyer lawyer, who filed a lawsuit claiming he flunked the Massachusetts bar exam because he refused to answer a question on gay marriage, has issued an apology to Boston’s gay community. Stephen Dunne said he was embarrassed for being an “instrument of bigotry and prejudice,” in a letter to the editor and interview in an edition of Bay Windows, a Boston newspaper serving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered readers. Dunne filed a federal lawsuit in June against the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners seeking to prohibit the gay marriage question from being used to compute his bar exam score and from being included in future exams. He argued that answering the question would imply his support of gay marriage and parenting, in violation of his Irish Catholic beliefs and First Amendment Rights. Awarded Philip Schrag, a professor Schrag at Georgetown University Law Center, was presented the Deborah L. Rhode Award by the Association of American Law Schools in recognition of his efforts to help ensure that law students who wish to pursue public interest careers can afford to do so. Schrag received the award at the annual meeting of the AALS in New York in January. The honor is awarded annually to a full-time faculty member or dean “who has made an outstanding contribution to increasing pro bono and public service opportunities in law schools through scholarship, leadership, or service.” 2007. Both the new software and the expanded waiver were the result of problems with SecurExam, the software used during the July 2007 exam. To at least hundreds of the 5,000 candidates using laptops, parts or all of the answers to essay questions seemed to disappear as students worked on their responses or, later, tried to download them for grading. The Board of Law Examiners determined that backup features on the software salvaged essays typed by all but 47 students. International A University of Hertfordshire law student, who pled guilty to assaulting two fellow students with a belt in a drunken brawl, escaped prison. According to the St. Albans & Harpenden Review, Fasih Cheema cut his victim’s faces by repeatedly swinging his belt at them. He was given 100 hours of community service at St. Albans Crown Court in the United Kingdom. Hired Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California— Irvine Donald Bren School of Law, has filled the first of its top administrative positions. Charles Cannon, the director of development at the University of California at Los Angeles, will become the director of development at UC Irvine’s law school in January. February 2008 New administrators • Ho f s t r a Un i ve r s i t y School of Law named Nora Demleitner as their first woman dean to head the school since it was founded in 1970. Demleitner has served as interim dean since March, and has been a finalist in the Bar exam Students taking part in February’s New York bar examination on a laptop computer will be using different software than that which malfunctioned for some candidates in July 8 THE NATIONAL JURIST
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